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It's a definition problem. If you showed someone 300 years ago a solar powered engine they would have called it a perpetual motion machine.

We've defined 'perpetual motion machine' as any machine that breaks the laws of thermodynamics so of course it's going to fail. If we defined 'perpetual motion machine' as a machine that operates perpetually then we have many.

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